Abbott and Costello

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Our guests here in Hollywood tonight are two of Hollywood's most famous stars, Abbot and Costello, but first, real one. Portrait of a fistfight. Since we're broadcasting tonight from Hollywood, it's appropriate that we tell a story. For all over the story began far from Hollywood, but wait a minute.

Let's begin the story. Back in 1895, Bob Fitzsimmons was scheduled to fight Peter Mayer for the heavyweight championship of the world. The fight was to be held in Langree, Texas, but since prize fighting was illegal in those days, the United States government dispatched an army of soldiers into Texas to stop the fight.

However, the promoter was determined to stage this fight, and so he moved it across the border in the nearby Mexico. But the Mexican government didn't want that fight any more than our government did, and they too dispatched an army of soldiers to see that the fight was stopped.

Nevertheless, on February the 21st of 1896, on a small island in the middle of the Rio Grande river which separates the United States from Mexico, those two fighters finally did meet. And Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Peter Mayer in the first round. They staged their fight, even though the American Army was drawn up on the American side of the Rio Grande River,